Improved bone-black equalizer



D.BRASILL au D A. MULLANE.

*BONE BLACK EQUALIZBR.

N0-.lQs,66a. PatentedAug.17,1869.V

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dotted tout DANIEL BRASILL AN D D. A.. MULLANE, or NEW oRLEANs,

LOUISIANA.

Letters Patent N o. 93,668, dated Augustll. 1869.

IMPRQBD BONE-BLACK EQUALIZBR.

The Schedule referred to in these Lette-ra Patent and making part of the sari/1e To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that we, DANIEL BnAslLL and 1:. A.

MULLANE, of the city of New Orleans, und Stute of Louisiana, have invented, jointly', :t certaun new :md useful improvement in machines technically known its Bone-Black Equalizers, und we do hereby declare the following to be n. full, clen-unnd exnct description of the saune, reference being had to thmnmexed drawing, making n port ofthis speciiiczttion, on which- Figure 1 is an end,

Figure 2, n top or pian, and

Figure 3, n side view thereof.

The particular design or object ot' our invention is to reduce or break up the bones, to be converted afterwzu-d into bone-black, in nu effective manner, und in small pieces of about the sanne size, without pulverizing the same, end thus to evoid the well-known disadvnntnges which result from pulverizntion in the first stu-ge of conversion; und

Our invention consists of two cylinders or crushingrollers, from the perimeters of which project tire or more concentric rings of teeth, of peculiar form, so nrrenged or' placed on such cylinder as to leave e. zigzag open space, through which the bones vto be broken up pnss inthe opernt-ion'of the machine, of nenrly equal width, everywhere. from one end of the cylinders to the other.

But our invention will be better understood by referring to the drawing, on which tive circumferential rings of teeth are shown on each ofthe cylinders. .A A are the two cylinders. rlhey are mounted and Sustained in proper journals on :t strong frame, not shown on the'drcwiugs, so as to be parallel lto-eoch other, es shown ctv tig. 2, and et such distance apart as to provide ynu open space between them, which, when diminished by the. rings of teeth, will break up or reduce the bones to pieces, of the required or given size, as they pnss through the same.

B B' Aare the teeth projecting from the respective cylinders, in such manner ns to leere a. zigzag open space, a, between the cylinders, which, throughout its whole extent, is very nearly of uniform width. These teeth, as shown at fig. l, nre formed not unlike sewteeth with the point-s out otr', and they are placed re versely to euch other on the two cylinders.

The cylinders are connected by menus of the c og- 'gear wheels C C', iitted on their axes E 11,which are extended, as shown :1t fig. 2., for this purpose, und mo.

tion is imparted to them through -the agency of the band-pulley l), and 'any proper driving-power-or -motor.

aThe opemtion ofour invention is very simple. The cylinders nre. put in motion, the rotation being in opposite directions, ns indicated by the arrows, at iig. l, und the bones being put between, are drown through the opening` a, und thoroughly broken to pieces. 'lhc teeth B B', it will be seen, nre, by reason of their peculiar form, especially' ndaptedfto the purpose of dra-wing in and forcing the. bones between the cylinders, and also, from their breadth on their farces, to thelcrushing or breaking of them its they pass through.

We have demonstrated the. ,eiiiciency of our machine by actual-l experimenunnd have now n full-.sized working machine in successful operation.

What wc claim, und desire to secure by Letters Pntent, is

The cylinders A A', when provided with the circumferential circles of saw-like teeth B B', so adjusted as tocreate the zigzag opening a between the cylinders, und the machiueis otherwiseconstructed and arranged,

suhstnntially ns herein described for the purpose set forth.

DANIEL BRASILL.

l D. ArMUL'LANE.

Witnesses:

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